CONCERN is growing for a missing Hampshire woman. Lesley Austin, 59, from Winchester, was last seen at around 1.50pm this afternoon and police are worried as she has swollen legs which makes moving around difficult. She is described as white
SHOLING dropped their first Sydenhams Premier points of the season in a 2-2 draw at Bemerton Heath Harlequins last night, blowing the chance to return to top spot. But it could have been a whole lot worse for Dave Diaper’s side who, having dominated
Emmanuel Mayuka scored his first goal as a Saints player as Mauricio Pochettino's men stuffed Barnsley 5-1 in the second round of the Capital One Cup at Oakwell. The Zambian interntional striker failed to find the net during a first season at the
Saints’ assistant manager Jesús Pérez was thrilled with the team’s performance at Barnsley and believes they can go far in this season’s Capital One Cup. A side featuring some established names mixed with a flavour of youth ended up demolishing
OVER the past month there has been a media campaign to convince us all that the economy is, at last, on the road of recovery. This Government’s policy of austerity is working, we just need to stick with it. Even if this were true, and it is
WHILE I don’t bother to write letters attacking UKIP (though I know they would cheerfully surrender the 30,000 jobs in Southampton/ Romsey/Winchester/Eastleigh which depend upon our EU membership), Colin Hingston, of Southampton, regularly parades
BANKS and hedge funds have been speculating on food prices, driving prices up for some years. They have hundreds of billions of pounds but do not want to invest in production for our needs. Instead they are always looking for fast bucks, ie
IN response to Colin Hingston’s article “Now EU wants to meddle in birth certificates”. My goodness, Mr Hingston, what is it with all this EU-bashing? In the British driving licence the letters UK are to be seen, not “Europe”. If the UK really
IN response to the article “Mozzie mayhem” my daughter moved to Regents Park, Southampton, three years ago. She has had mosquito problems every summer with this being the worst. A neighbour told them they had to use mosquito nets for their
ON the subject of GCSE exam results and further opportunities, more school leavers are opting out of higher education with apprenticeship take-up the highest it has ever been. This is great news since there’s so many opportunities within this industry
ALAN Kebble (Letters, August 22) continues to deny the history of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The US was already in negotiations with Japan about surrendering in early 1945. The Japanese were holding out to keep their Emperor
THE interest now being shown in the use of an atomic bomb to hasten the end of the Second World War should be examined, if only to point out to present generations the reasons for it. The war against civilians was promoted by Hitler in bombing
I THANK Cllr David Furnell for confirming the point I was making in my previous letter (“Disbelief as Labour’s leaflet treats us all like idiots”, August 9). If Southampton City Council (with all its resources) feels that £250,000 a year is too
Follow @EchoPics Our photographer took pictures at Eastleigh Chili Festival - they're hot property! These images are available to purchase as prints, mugs, t-shirts, digital downloads, and more.
A MAN has been charged with the murder of a dad in Southampton. Damon Wright, aged 31, of Pine Vale Crescent, Bournemouth, Dorset has been charged with the murder of Kevin Wyeth whose body was found in Woolston early on Saturday, August 24.
THE Pink Ball is back for a whirlwind extravaganza of fine food, high class entertainment and fundraising. Taking place at Southampton’s De Vere Grand Harbour Hotel on Saturday October 5, this is the fabulous charity evening supported by the LGBT
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IT IS A sum of money that could make the dreams of dozens of would-be Hampshire business people reality. And now a second round has opened for entrepreneurs and current business owners to bid for a portion of the £1.85m jackpot. The funding
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MOTORISTS have been stung for more than £1.3m by a speed camera over the past three years. The camera, on the A3024 near Bitterne centre, has generated a total of £1,307,520 since 2010 - trapping 10,985 drivers last year. Figures from Hampshire
KEEPING active is the key to long life, according to Doris Stone. She celebrated her 100th birthday with family and friends at a party in Shirley Baptist church on Saturday, though her actual birthday is tomorrow. The Shirley resident said
A NEW deal will kick start £200,000 refurbishment works at a Southampton leisure centre. Southampton City Council chiefs have agreed to extend a deal with Solent University to manage St Mary’s Leisure Centre. The extension of the deal until
A HAMPSHIRE man who helped raise millions of pounds towards a new hospital has died. Walter Symons, who was 95, was director of the Lymington and District Hospital Appeal for the full 28 years. The appeal raised £3.3m over that time and funded
HE often finds himself telling his patients that having surgery to remove oesophageal cancer is like running a marathon without training. So inspired by this and in honour of his patients Southampton surgeon Tim Underwood and his team are embarking
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IN THE late 1960s, when Southampton opened the first heliport in the country to an air of optimism, many envisaged it would set the city firmly on the map as the meeting place for highpowered company executives. For five years it did just that,
HAMPSHIRE Search Dogs mantrailing team is looking for volunteers to help train scent specific search dogs. The dogs are often used to help police and the coastguard to help search for vulnerable missing people. The training takes place across
A THOROUGHFARE with an especially chequered past is Simnel Street, Southampton, which has run the full gamut of prosperity and poverty in its time. It reached its lowest ebb in the 19th century, when it was one of the most run-down and dilapidated
MODELS will strut their stuff at a charity catwalk event in Southampton. Sainsbury’s in Portswood will hold the event on September 12 that will raise money for local charity the Rose Road Association. Models from Rose Road and the supermarket
FROM apple dunking to a bouncy slide, there was fun and games for all the family at a Southampton pub’s charity event. The Bittern in Thornhill Park Road held the fun day to raise funds for child bereavement support organisation Simon Says.
CANNABIS campaigners held a big Smoke Up in Southampton on Saturday. Participants had been told they faced arrest, but in the end the event to raise awareness of the medical benefits of the drug passed without incident. Southampton Cannabis
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IT is D-Day today for a controversial “village green” development of 39 houses in a quiet Hampshire community. Planners will decide whether to grant outline planning permission to the Perbury Group and Hyde Group for the homes in Ampfield, near
WINCHESTER City reclaimed pole position in the Sydenhams Premier Division with a 3-1 win at Horndean yesterday. Graham Kemp’s men take over top spot from Sholing, who play their second bank holiday fixture away at Bemerton Heath Harlequins tonight
RESIDENTS living in the Townhill and Bitterne areas of Southampton can discuss concerns with police at a beat surgery tomorrow. The surgery takes place at the Old Chemist in Manor Farm Road from 11am to 1pm.
EASTLEIGH’S let slip their fifth point of a disappointing bank holiday weekend when held 0-0 by south coast neighbours Havant & Waterlooville yesterday. After losing their first Hampshire derby 2-0 at Basingstoke Town on Saturday, Richard Hill
A NEW door-to-door minibus service for elderly and disabled passengers is launching tomorrow in the Test Valley. Test Valley Community Services will be running the fortnightly trial route between Lockerly, the Tytherleys and Romsey. The 15-
IT is officially the best small music venue in the country – and it is doing its bit to help a charity record shop. The Joiners Arms, in St Mary’s Street, Southampton, has set up a large pink bin urging punters to donate their old records, CDs
THE streets of a Hampshire village were gripped in carnival fever yesterday. More than 2,000 people lined the streets as a glittering parade made its way through Brockenhurst in glorious sunshine. The procession, which included half a
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TIME is running out to submit entries to a children’s contest based on one of the nation’s favourite teddy bears. The Mottisfont Abbey Winnie-the-Pooh “Great Expotition” competition invites youngsters to share their own adventures with their favourite
SAINTS star Rickie Lambert is set to continue his fledgling international career after being called into the England squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers. Lambert, 31, has been named in the squad that will face Moldova and Ukraine early
TWENTY-four trees will be removed as part of improvements to a site in Southampton city centre. They will be replaced by 24 new trees as part of work to improve the city’s station quarter. The city council’s planning and rights of way panel
HAMPSHIRE'S Michael Carberry has been called up to the one-day squad to face Ireland and Australia. England have rested a host of senior players for their forthcoming matches, including captain Alastair Cook. Cook joins fellow Ashes winners
WHEN Terry Hammond, pictured, took early retirement six years ago he felt he needed a new hobby to keep his brain active. But rather than throwing himself into Sudoku or other brain training pastimes he decided to write a full-length play.
DISGUST, terror, repulsion might be the kind of feelings the average person associates with rats. Often thought of as vermin, the rodent’s notoriety for spreading the plague and living in sewers seem to have ingrained them into society’s subconscious
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ALMOST 50 talented future stars of the stage are busy bringing Dickens classic Great Expectations to life. Rehearsals are under way for Hampshire Youth Theatre (HYT), the annual youth theatre project for 14 to 21-year-olds from across the county
On the anniversary of the battle of Bosworth (planning or coincidence?), TFT gave an exciting account of the bloody rise and brief reign of England’s most vilified monarch. As the “bottled spider”, Rick Oakley’s clearly deranged Richard dominated
RAGGA Metallers Skindred have announced new tour dates in support of their hotly anticipated new album Kill the Power. They play Southampton’s Mo Club in January on the second date of their UK tour, supported by US rockers SOil and Viza. Skindred
A MICROLIGHT has this morning crashed into a hangar at the Isle of Wight airport. Emergency services were called to the runway at Sandown at around 10.45am today. Ambulance crews treated two people for minor injuries and the runway, which was
Sports presenter Clare Balding returned home to Hampshire yesterday to open a village fete in Kingsclere, near Basingstoke. Clare officially got proceedings under way at St Mary’s Church Fete. The former jockey grew up in the village before
SELECTED Photographs, a show featuring photographic work from the late Michael Ward, will open on the Isle of Wight next month. A total of 23 of his most highly regarded works will go on show at the Rope Store Gallery at Quay Arts in Newport on
The sun shone once again on the annual village fete in Easton, near Winchester, with around 1,000 people turning out. It has been going for at least 50 years and was held at the village cricket ground, large enough to contain a variety of stalls
THE world famous pianist, composer and conductor David Owen Norris is coming to Stockbridge to perform a concert with his friends, Camilla Scarlet on violin and cellist Jonathan Byers. David will be performing on his Broadwood Grand Piano of 1828
MEMBERS of Hedge End’s Performing Arts Company are hoping old friends will join them to toast 20 years. The company is due to celebrate the milestone birthday with a reunion party at the Eastpoint Centre on Saturday, September 14. The evening
A WOMAN is appealing a council’s decision not to allow her to open a window in her home just 5cm – a couple of inches. Lynn Taylor has appealed against the decision by Fareham borough councillors, who refused permission for a change in the planning
A MAN was attacked with a baseball bat outside a Hampshire Conservative club while it was holding its summer ball, police say. The 51-year-old victim suffered an injury to his arm and thigh after being targeted outside Southern Parishes Conservative
OAKHAVEN Hospice in Lymington has been given an £8,000 donation from a housing association. The money was handed out by the Sovereign Housing Association which has an annual budget set aside for good causes. A committee made up of local residents
THE beautifully-crafted pop songs that have made Ben Goddard a hit at festivals around the country this summer will top a SO:FEST line-up that includes rock, ska, folk-punk and retro. Southampton’s Ben and his band will join a programme that includes
A HELICOPTER crash which killed a Hampshire man and three others will be “painstakingly investigated” to find out what went wrong, according to the aircraft operators. Super Puma flights to and from UK offshore installations were suspended in the
A SCHEME to alleviate flooding problems on a Hampshire street will go ahead next month. Engineers had hoped to start the work this month but after complaints from Braishfield villagers and concerns raised by Hampshire’s leader Roy Perry, highway
KNIVES, swords, knuckledusters and batons can all be described as offensive weapons. But one Hampshire mum was shocked to discover that the humble fly swat had joined that list when she went to buy one from her local hardware store. Nicola
An exclusive Daily Echo investigation can today reveal how some women desperate to become mothers are having sex with total strangers to get pregnant. Tara Russell went undercover to find out more about the sordid world of unlicensed sperm donation
MANCHESTER UNITED have reportedly entered the race to sign former Saint Gareth Bale from Tottenham, with a mammoth £125m bid needed to gazump Real Madrid. The Welsh international, who came through the youth ranks at St. Mary's before breaking into
A WOMAN was rescued and taken to hospital after fire took hold in her Southampton flat in the early hours of this morning. A total of 22 firefighters attended a kitchen blaze at a first floor flat in Redbridge Hill, Maybush, at 12.47am. Hampshire
Detectives have been given more time to question a suspect following the murder of a Hampshire dad. The 31-year-old was being held by police over the murder of father-of-three Kevin Wyeth in Southampton in the early hours of Saturday. The man
A DRUG addict who held up a petrol station attendant with a bottle of alcopop in a desperate bid to feed his habit has been jailed for two years. Andrew Brown is beginning a 27 month prison sentence after attempted attempted robbery and assaulting
A CITY green space has claimed second place in this year’s National Lottery Awards. Once run-down, St James’ Park in Shirley, Southampton, has been transformed into a welcoming place for the whole community to enjoy, thanks to National Lottery
STEVE Riley professed himself “proud” to be in charge of AFC Totton in the wake of yesterday’s 3-1 win over his old club Bashley at the Testwood Stadium. After a troubled summer when the club’s financial problems prompted a mass exodus of senior
Jack Cork is one of several Saints players who are this evening hoping to force themselves back into Mauricio Pochettino’s plans. Cork has been a high profile casualty of Saints’ summer spending as the man who came third in last year’s player of
For Jose Fonte Saints’ lavish summer spending has been a cause for celebration rather than concern. The Portuguese centre half is one of the players that was with the club in League One and has helped them into the top flight. The £8.5m signing
Barnsley manager David Flitcroft admits his team selection for their Capital One Cup clash against Saints tonight might be decided by a “headcount.” Flitcroft’s side are currently bottom of the Championship without a league victory all season following
Ventnor’s faint hopes of catching South Wilts at the top of the ECB Southern Electric Premier League were dashed by a hefty eight-wicket defeat by the Hampshire Academy on the Ageas Bowl Nursery Ground. They were on the back foot from the start
South Wilts have completed a ECB Southern Electric Premier League and Electric t20 Cup double. They partied long into the night after clinching a second consecutive title with a convincing nine-wicket win over Bashley (Rydal) at Bemerton. Tom
A FUNERAL will take place this week for a Southampton teenager who died after taking a ‘legal high’. As reported, Adam Hunt lost his fight for life in hospital earlier this month five days after consuming the drugs AMT and etizolam. The 18-
